Investment: Jenny Powell owns four buy-to-let flats The best money decision that TV presenter Jenny Powell ever made was buying her own home following her divorce. Despite being a ‘hormonal divorced wreck’ with two young children, she managed to buy a £940,000 house that now, just over a decade later, is worth around £1.5million. The … Read more
Former Special Forces soldier Ollie Ollerton thinks it’s not worth investing in either pensions or property because neither is the route to wealth. Instead, Ollerton, star of Channel 4 TV show SAS: Who Dares Wins, prefers to invest in his own businesses and designer watches. He does not save into a pension and rents his … Read more
On the ball: Jonathan Davies has invested in property Former rugby star Jonathan Davies would abolish inheritance tax if he were made Chancellor of the Exchequer. Davies was a schoolboy when his father died from cancer and later he lost his first wife, Karen, to the disease when his youngest child was only a year … Read more
TV presenter Anna Williamson is feeling lucky that she has saved for a rainy day. The star of Celebs Go Dating says coronavirus has had an ‘enormous’ impact on her financially, but it has also made her feel thankful for what she has, including her good health. If she were the Chancellor, she would provide … Read more
Former jump jockey Richard Pitman would abolish income tax if he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Pitman rode 470 winners in his career, but was famously beaten into second place in the 1973 Grand National on board Crisp by Red Rum, three-time winner of the Aintree race. He reveals he could earn the equivalent of … Read more
Singer and guitarist Russell Hastings thinks the Government should set up a social deprivation fund to help people who have lost income due to the coronavirus. Hastings is a member of band From The Jam – an offshoot of The Jam. They have had to cancel 60 tour dates, but are planning to return in … Read more
TV presenter Jules Hudson says the coronavirus outbreak has had a ‘devastating’ impact on his finances – and he would like the Chancellor to do more to help self-employed media workers like him. Hudson, 50, who has had to stop filming BBC One’s Escape To The Country due to the lockdown, also reveals that he … Read more
TV presenter and children’s author Konnie Huq thinks people who buy brand names are wasting their money and should be spending their cash either trying to make society more equal – or saving lives. Huq, 44, who made her name as the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, says she doesn’t need any more money … Read more
Our lifestyle guru Dr Michael Mosley is too scared to look at how much money he’s lost due to the coronavirus outbreak. The doctor and TV presenter popularised the 5:2 diet and says writing his most famous book, The Fast Diet, was the smartest financial decision he ever made. But he invested most of the … Read more
Author and commentator Julia Hobsbawm says the best money decision she ever made was buying her first home, a one-bedroom flat in Camden, North London, for just £40,000. Hobsbawm, who is feeling the financial effects of the coronavirus on her income, also reveals she has a shoe habit and is used to treating herself every … Read more
Paralympian Will Bayley was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that affects all four limbs, and was diagnosed with cancer when he was seven. He began playing table tennis during his recovery and went on to represent Great Britain at the Paralympics, achieving world number one ranking in 2012 and winning a silver medal in London … Read more
TV presenter Johnny Ball has never forgotten the days he struggled to make ends meet, playing drums in Liverpool and hanging out with The Beatles. Ball, now 81, went on to earn six-figure sums presenting science and technology programmes for children throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He has never tried to give his daughter, DJ … Read more
Timmy Mallett on Good Morning Britain Children’s TV star Timmy Mallett finds investing tediously boring but necessary to change the world for the better, he tells Donna Ferguson. Mallett, who famously used to whack children on the head with an inflatable hammer on TV in the 1980s, thinks ethical investments have a huge power to … Read more